Popular politics means noise, and what intelligence needs is calm.
At times, through a painful imposition of Providence, Dante is in exile,
Cervantes in prison; Beethoven is deaf and Milton is blind.
It was in the golden solitude of a farm in the outskirts of Rome that
Horace could write his "Odes" and Virgil his "Aeneid," never in a
Parliamentary seat.
-- Felipe Torroba Bernaldo de Quiros
Related:
Ever since I was a young boy,
I've hacked the ARPA ne
From Berkeley down to Rutgers, He's on my favorite terminal,
Any access I could get, He cats C right into foo,
But ain't seen nothing like him, His disciples lead him in,
On any campus yet, And he just breaks the root,
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid, Always has full SYS-PRIV's,
Sure sends a mean packet....